(October 28, 2015 at 2:11 am)Nestor Wrote:(October 28, 2015 at 1:42 am)Quantum Wrote: This sounds intriguing, but I am not yet entirely sure I understand the argument. Can we start from the basics - why exactly is past infinity a problem?As I see it, it's incoherent to suggest that infinity can exist as a complete set - think of infinity as a number. You can always seemingly add to whatever that infinite number "is" - hence, it could not actually be infinite. So, if past time were infinite, the present could not arrive, for it would require an infinite amount of time for every prior successive moment to reach completion, which doesn't appear to mean anything. But if we grant infinite past time, there is no need for God. I'm more interested in granting the logical impossibility of actual infinities for the sake of argument, and then asking how it is that God is also not made logically impossible?
How is the problem of an infinite regress never reaching the present different than the problem of an arrow never reaching it's mark because there are an infinite number of points between where it was shot and its mark? The arrow does reach its mark whether we can describe how it gets through an infinity of points or not.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
